Based on interviews in schools, workplaces and homes, this book tells the story of an epidemic of unkindness, uncovering the stories of bullies all around us. The online environment has given bullies a much wider range of tools to use to abuse their targets. Marion Scher tracks the links between bullying and mental health issues.

As Marion says: ‘I had to brace myself to hear the often heartbreaking and vicious stories from those who encountered torturous relationships. The big question I kept asking myself was, “How could you get involved with such a person?” But just who is that kind of person, and is it even possible to spot them?’

She calls on the advice of a range of experts to help make sense of the bullies and their victims, with a range of advice to help manage the bully boss, the bully in school and the bully in a relationship. The book has stories, statistics, advice and lots of help to understand how bullies work.

It is time for victims to call bullies to account and for schools, workplaces and society as a whole to put a stop to the tormentors.

Here’s the Thing is a new collection of thought-provoking essays from Haji Mohamed Dawjee.

Filled with stories and insights that are contemplative, comedic and controversial, you will find a touching letter to her father, the honest truth about the pain in the arse that is parenting and ponderings about struggling with the vicissitudes of the modern world filled with cancel culture and the controversies of appreciating the wrong artists. There is also a serving of the many wise lessons the game of tennis has to offer as well as hilarious insights and observations on dustbins, yes dustbins, and ageing, that ring true.

Here’s the Thing is relatable, relevant, entertaining, soothingly self-deprecating and, at times, morally challenging.

Mister Winston is a substantial man, an honest man, a ‘good’ politician. Or at least, this is how he likes to see himself.

But as his life falls apart and his political party’s hypocrisies and failings become impossible to ignore, this easy image begins to crack, and he goes from being a potential president to a man washing dishes and sleeping under bridges.

With lucid prose and startingly beautiful imagery, Nthikeng Mohlele reaches into the consciousness of a man fallen from grace, and the disillusionment, fractured morals and unravelling personal life which led to this spiritual exile is revealed.

Revolutionaries’ House is an electrifying novel of love, power and attachment, and their many betrayals.

This remarkable collection of birding stories, written by some of our most intrepid bird observers, will convert a new generation of South African ornithologists and watchers of wilderness.

Birds and their names sing from the pages; owls, Shoebills, sandgrouse, Hooded Pittas, Rhinoceros Hornbills, Brown Kiwis, Rock Doves, Cape Eagle Owls, Greater Flameback woodpeckers, Inaccessible Island Rail, Superb and Beautiful Sunbird, Violet Turaco and the African Crowned Eagle.

Contributors include: David Allan, Mark D. Anderson, Mark Brown, Callan Cohen, Susie Cunningham, W. Richard J. Dean, Morne du Plessis, Vernon RL Head, Alan Kemp, David Letsoalo, Rob Little, John Maytham, Adam Riley, Peter Ryan, Claire Spottiswoode, Peter Steyn, Peter Sullivan, Warwick Tarboton, Mel Tripp and Ross Wanless.

All author royalties will be donated to the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology to support ongoing ornithological research.

In 1978, the activist and novelist Alex La Guma (1925–1985) published A Soviet Journey, a memoir of his travels in the Soviet Union. Today it stands as one of the longest and most substantive first-hand accounts of the USSR by an African writer. La Guma’s book is consequently a rare and important document of the anti-apartheid struggle and the Cold War period, depicting the Soviet model from an African perspective and the specific meaning it held for those envisioning a future South Africa.

For many members of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, the Soviet Union represented a political system that had achieved political and economic justice through socialism – a point of view that has since been lost with the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War. This new edition of A Soviet Journey – the first since 1978 – restores this vision to the historical record, highlighting how activist-intellectuals like La Guma looked to the Soviet Union as a paradigm of self-determination, decolonisation and postcolonial development.

The introduction by Christopher J. Lee discusses these elements of La Guma’s text, in addition to situating La Guma more broadly within the intercontinental spaces of the Black Atlantic and an emergent Third World. Presenting a more expansive view of African literature and its global intellectual engagements, A Soviet Journey will be of interest to readers of African fiction and non-fiction, South African history, postcolonial Cold War studies and radical political thought.

Alex La Guma was a South African novelist, leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and a defendant in the Treason Trial, whose works helped characterise the movement against the apartheid era in South Africa.

Rehana Rossouw’s unique voice gives life and drama to this family saga. It is the story of the Fourie family, residents of Hanover Park in the Cape Flats during the height of the struggle era. The main characters include Magda, the churchgoing mother, who doesn’t see what’s going on in front of her; Neville, the concerned and loving but not always effectual father; Suzette, the oldest daughter, who is bound and determined to get away and make a better life for herself via a career in modelling; Nicky, the smart and sensitive middle child, who proves herself capable of making unselfish choices; and Anthony, the naive and doomed son, who gets caught up with a gang and meets a sad end. In What Will People Say the setting is everything, and the author doesn’t stint on the details of the world her characters inhabit. Readers who have never set foot in Hanover Park will feel they are there, and those who know the place will nod in recognition of the sensory details the author loads into her writing. Nor does the author shy away from the difficult issues faced by those living in this marginalised and disadvantaged community, which came into being as a result of the forced removals from Cape Town. How these issues affect the members of a particular family and their relationships with one another are the focus of the author’s close-up lens. Generously spiced with Cape Flats slang; lots of vivid and gritty description that give an authentic feel to the story; plenty of plot – the writer draws us in and makes us curious about what will happen next; and very human characters we come to care about.

Crisp light, a profusion of wild flowers, and an astonishing choice of fresh produce – it is spring in the medieval village of Charroux in the Allier department of France, where Marlene van der Westhuizen invites you to steal a glimpse into the inner workings of her fiftieth cooking class.

Along with 80 new recipes (including Fillets de sole Bonne Femme, Early Autumn chicken and Apple blinis) follow Marlene and her class as they lift the veil on the understated glamour of French country cooking, eating and living.

Learn how to navigate food markets, bargain for beautiful antiques, cook and present glorious meals, and enjoy every aspect of life in a French village with grace and charm. Then start saving to join Marlene in France yourself …

Nikki Bush, a parenting expert, and Arthur Goldstuck, a technical commentator, will help parents get a handle on what’s happening in consumer technology. In this sensitive and insightful guide, they carve a path through the maze of terminology, dangers and opportunities to help parents navigate new spaces together with their children, with greater confidence.

In explaining the technology, they never ignore the human context: to place children’s use of technology in the context of the relationship between parents and their children.

The guide will ensure children are both safe and savvy in this fast-changing world, and the process starts with parents. For families to remain connected, both online and offline, and for young people to develop into responsible digital citizens, parents need to bridge the digital divide for their children.

Wat is ’n menselewe werd as jy minder as niks op jou naam het nie?

Toe die regering besluit om ’n yslike dam in die diep, dorre Noord-Kaap te bou, is die skrif teen die muur vir die vergete dorpie van Bitterwater. Inwoners het ’n jaar tyd om hul dorp te ontruim en voor die groot water uit te vlug.

Konstabel Cheslin Fielies is die een wat moet seker maak die hele storie gebeur betyds. Pas van die Cape Flats oorgeplaas, word hy gou in die dorpstories ingetrek: Hoekom verafsku die gemeenskap die drankwinkeleienaar Braam Pens so? Wat het Jan Boklam een nag in die dorpsdam sien gebeur? En spook dit regtig by die vervalle ou pastorie waar die Van Helsdingens probeer oorleef?

Terwyl hy van sy eie spoke vlug en die Bitterwaters van die sondvloed probeer red, is dit sy onverwagse vriendskap met die dominee se vrou, Miriam, wat die krake in Cheslin se damwal blootlê. Want water is vergifnis, glo sy. Water is vergeet. Maar sommige geheime sal nie deur die vloed weggespoel word nie.

Minder as water is ’n meesleurende tragikomedie wat jou gaan roer, jou gaan laat lag en uiteindelik die vraag vra: Wat gebeur met die mens wanneer hy voor syeinde te staan kom?

In Seven Khoi lives Karel Schoeman writes about seven Khoi men and women whose lives became inextricably linked to the VOC’s settlement at the Cape in the seventeenth century. Chiefs and servants, enemies and interpreters; none of them escaped unscathed as their people were marginalised and their stories reduced to mere footnotes in the annals of history. These biographies were first seen in Kinders van die Kompanjie: Kaapse lewens uit die sewentiende eeu and have now been reworked for the benefit of a non-South African readership. Schoeman paints a vivid picture of life at the southernmost point of Africa at a time when the Khoikhoi believed they could find a way of living with these foreigners and their unceasing appetite for cattle – or free themselves forever of this unasked-for presence.

’n Splinternuwe Kies-jou-eie-avontuur-reeks uit die pen van Jaco Jacobs.

Wat’s die storie met dié boek? Hierdie is nie sommer enige boek nie – dis JOU storie! Dis reg, JY is die hoofkarakter en JY besluit wat volgende gaan gebeur. Lees die instruksies onderaan elke hoofstuk en besluit wat jy volgende gaan doen. Elke keuse lei na ’n nuwe avontuur.

Is jy dapper genoeg om die watermonster te trotseer? Dis jou keuse – jy kan die vakansie saam met jou ouers oorsee gaan, of saam met jou supervreemde tannie Ingrid langs ’n meer gaan kampeer. Tannie Ingrid is ’n wetenskaplike wat reptiele en paddas bestudeer. Wil jy regtig die hele vakansie lank iewers gaan bly waar daar beslis nie Wi-Fi is nie en jy heeldag met jou water-stewels deur ’n vleiland vol paddas moet ploeter?

Maar in die donker waters van die meer skuil ’n geheim. ’n Geheim met skubbe en tande. En dalk word dié vakansie die avontuur van ’n leeftyd …

Yes, you better believe it! You CAN own your own home … and this book will show you how.

Owning a home is NOT reserved for a select few, and although everyone wants to own their own property, too many are unaware that this possibility exists for everyone. Without the necessary information, the process seems overwhelming. Where to begin? What are the requirements? Where am I going to get that kind of money? Too often, one gives up before even trying.

There is no rule that says you have to pay rent to a landlord for the rest of your life. It takes only that first step – the realisation that it can be done. And this book will show you how, by breaking down a seemingly complex process into simple, logical and easy-to-understand actions. Real-life case studies highlight the common errors many of us commit, until we know better. It is only once these patterns are recognised that they can be remedied.

If your dream is to own your own home for generations to come, this book will help you every step of the way!

Soetroos van Saron vertel die verhaal van Delicia Basson, ‘n jong vrou van Saron wat ‘n gesogde beurs van die welgestelde Nicol-familie ontvang om aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch te studeer.

Delicia is opgewonde én angstig wanneer sy ouma Toesie en haar vertroude wêreld agterlaat om haar studies voort te sit. Delicia is heeltemal oorweldig deur die prag en praal waarin die welgestelde Nicolfamilie woon. Maar geleidelik besef sy daar is iets sinisters wat onder die oppervlak broei. Soos sy dieper grawe, ontdek Delicia ‘n patroon van uitbuiting wat ander slagoffers betrek – insluitend Deyoncé, ‘n plaasmeisie wat op geheimsinnige wyse verdwyn het.

Kan Delicia soos Nancy Drew die leidrade ondersoek en die donker waarheid blootlê?

Sabine Maartens is nie iemand wat getem kan word nie. Ná pynlike jeugjare het sy haar eie weg gebaan as vlieënier in Botswana, maar daar is altyd die risiko dat haar onblusbare drang om wilde diere te beskerm haar aan die verkeerde kant van die reg kan laat beland.

Haar pad het jare gelede kortstondig gekruis met dié van Max Krige, 'n eks-Interpolagent wat deesdae 'n top-onderhandelaar is vir 'n internasionale sekuriteitsmaatskappy … en toe het die vonke gespat. Nou bevind Sabine haar in 'n lewensgevaarlike situasie as een van die gyselaars wat uit die deltagebied weggevoer word. Reeds is 'n bloedspoor agtergelaat. Kan Max verdere lewensverlies verhoed?

Dit voel asof die noodlot hierdie omstandighede bestem het, want Max weet dit is nie 'n situasie waar hy koel en berekend kan optree nie. Sy hart vertel hom dit.

Grensloos is 'n boeiende roman, propvol spanning en intrige, asook die meesleurende karakterverhoudings waarvoor Wilna Adriaanse so geliefd is.

Ella Olivia is ’n kranige lysiemaker wat haar hele lewe fyn probeer beplan, want sy glo alle slegte dinge gebeur op Vrydae.

Na ’n belaglike insident waarin sy ’n meme geword het (natuurlik op ’n Vrydag), is haar laaste minuut aanvaarding by Kovsies om medies te studeer ’n nuwe begin vir haar. Maar na nóg ’n belaglike verwarring, bevind sy haarself in die laaste situasie waarin sy wil wees: die kollig. Sy moet Con Trubleau, gewilde kitaarspeler en hoofsanger van die boyband Vuurvreter, se fake meisie wees.

Hierdie is só nie deel van haar plan nie.

Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid interrogates how, in the era of decolonisation, post-apartheid South Africa reckons with its past in order to shape its future. Architects, historians, artists, social anthropologists and urban planners seek answers in this book to complex and unsettling questions around heritage, ruins and remembrance.

What do we do with hollow memorials and political architectural remnants? Which should remain, which forgotten, and which dismantled? Are these vacant buildings, cemeteries, statues, and derelict grounds able to serve as inspiration in the fight against enduring racism and social neglect? Should they become exemplary as spaces for restitution and justice? The contributors examine the influence of public memory, planning and activism on such anguished places of oppression, resistance and defiance. Their focus on visible markers in the landscape to interrogate our past will make readers reconsider these spaces, looking at their landscape and history anew.

Through a series of 14 empirically grounded chapters and 48 images, the contributors seek to understand how architecture contests or subverts these persistent conditions in order to promote social justice, land reclamation and urban rehabilitation. The decades following the dismantling of apartheid are surveyed in light of contemporary heritage projects, where building ruins and abandoned spaces are challenged and renegotiated across the country to become sites of protest, inspiration and anger.

This ground-breaking collection is an important resource for professionals, academics and activists working in South Africa today.

Drift happens.

Not because leaders lack intelligence. Not because the strategy was wrong. But because execution decays quietly, predictably, under the weight of competing priorities, unclear ownership, and fragmented attention.

Ethiopian Airlines sustained commercial focus through five government transitions to become Africa’s most profitable carrier. Dangote built pan-African cement capacity while competitors collapsed. Rwanda’s tax-to-GDP ratio climbed from 9.5% to 13% of GDP within six years. They didn’t try harder. They designed differently. Focus is a design choice. Most organisations have designed for drift without realising it.

FOCUS5 is a disciplined system built from what actually works – not theory, but documented practice across organisations that couldn’t afford to let strategy fade.

Five moves that protect attention instead of fragmenting it: FRAME · OWN · CADENCE · UNBLOCK · SUSTAIN

If you’ve wondered why good strategies stall after strong starts, why teams stay busy but progress slows, why accountability erodes without anyone noticing, or why execution depends on heroic effort that can’t be sustained – this book, Drift Happens, written by Nkululeko Khumalo will show you where the leverage actually sits.

Because strategy doesn’t fail all at once. It drifts.

And drift is preventable.

A great deal of the revolutionary work that Charles Nqakula undertook as an ANC underground cadre and combatant of Umkhonto we Sizwe was in the Eastern Cape. This book is a well-documented and detailed recollection of those difficult and dangerous times when detention, imprisonment, torture, and even death were always imminent.

It required massive courage and heroism to be part of that array of outstanding leaders and cadres of the revolutionary movements. Readers will be convinced that Charles and his wife/partner Nosiviwe were selfless, dedicated, loyal, disciplined, and brave freedom fighters. This book is noteworthy because Charles remembers, gives due credit, and attaches names to the many comrades who participated in that heroic struggle with him and Nosiviwe. It is difficult to understand and appreciate the dialectical interconnectedness of the individual and the collective. The collective is always more important than the individual but the collective is at the same time the sum total of the individual contributions. In this book, Charles successfully portrays that delicate and complex relationship.

The People’s War describes the work undertaken by Charles and Nosiviwe in the ANC underground and MK units in a dispassionate manner without any self-praise or grandstanding. Charles also recounts how Nosiviwe nearly lost her life in an ambush carried out by Unita on an MK convoy as well as an attempted assassination outside their home in Cyrildene. In the latter chapters of the book, Charles writes about political developments and processes from 1990 up to the present time. He recounts his work as a mediator in the conflicts in Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mauritania, the pain and anguish at the tragic murder of their son, Chumani Siyavuya, and comments on the debilitating challenges of factionalism, election slates, and corruption degrading the integrity, unity, reputation, values, and electoral support of the ANC.

In ’n hiernamaals waar die goeies beloon word en skuldiges moet boete doen, glo hy nie. Almal wat aandadig was, moet in hierdie lewe gestraf word. Dit gaan haar nie terugbring nie, of hom vryspreek nie, maar dit is ten minste iets.

’n Serwiese geheime agent wat ’n dwelmsindikaat ondersoek, word koelbloedig vermoor in Kaapstad se berugte nagklubdistrik. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens was hulle hande – dit was ’n gewone straatroof; die skuldiges is onbekend.

Die Serwiese geheime diens, ’n organisasie met ’n reputasie vir vergelding, koop dit nie; hulle stuur die gedugte majoor Viktor Vesić na Suid-Afrika om ondersoek in te stel.

Sy speurwerk lei hom na onverwagse plekke . . . en dan raak dit persoonlik. Nou word die spoor ’n bloedspoor.

Dare To Believe is a poignant narrative of resilience, courage and hope in the face of adversity. Mmusi Maimane invites readers on a journey through his personal experiences, from the hardships of Apartheid-era Soweto to the corridors of power in post-liberation South Africa.

With insights drawn from his political career and a deep commitment to justice, Maimane shares the travails of party politics, the difficult task of transforming the DA, and his vision for a South Africa where all races can live and prosper together.

This book challenges us to confront the realities of inequality and division while daring to envision a nation united in prosperity and peace. It is a call to restore democracy back to the people and a compelling articulation of Maimane's belief in the transformative power of unity and the promise of a better tomorrow.

Veganism is a growing phenomenon on the culinary scene. The South African Vegan Cookbook is the first of its kind locally.

In it you will find everything you need for a vegan lifestyle: from basic information such as the definition of veganism, why it’s good for you, answers to common questions, the essential equipment, vegan alternatives for everyday products, the pantry essentials and resources to learn more. The family-friendly recipes are easy to make and are made from locally-sourced products. This cookbook includes recipes for breakfast, snacks, lunch, tea time, the braai, entertaining and late-nights feasts.

Think decadent chocolate granola and overnight oats, kale chips and cauliflower bites, easy-to-make couscous salad, lasagne and stir-fry as well as South African favourites like milk tart, banana loaf, macaroni-and-cheese and chicken burgers. And to top it all: chocolate mousse, date balls and truffles.

Vegan 101 – good for your health and the planet.

This book takes you beyond the traditional boundaries of muted, delicate and translucent watercolour to create rich, vivid images, not only with watercolour on paper, but with other media and materials, while still retaining a watery feel and enhancing and expanding the possible textural effects. The projects showcase a mix of water media in familiar and unconventional, experimental ways. These include paint, ink, coloured pencils and fabric dye, with texture mediums forming part of the repertoire. While watercolour paper is used a fair amount, canvases, board and drafting paper or vellum are also incorporated. Some really simple, structured techniques have been covered, which can be followed step by step to achieve a very similar outcome and are suitable for crafty projects. Readers are also encouraged to use the more spontaneous and less controlled techniques (illustrated step by step), to further their own creative path, develop a sense of adventure, learn to take risks and work with their 'happy accidents'. There are lots of things one can do with unsuccessful work and the author has included ideas for incorporating discarded endeavours into new art work. Filled with fabulous ideas for both artists and crafters, even the absolute beginner will be able to play and experiment along with Water marks.

Die duiwel is hierdie jaar los by die klooster van die heilige sint William, Beskermheilige van die Metaversum. Dapper de Wet, roosteler, gourmand en deurwinterde loodswaaier, word teen sy sin deur die Departement afgevaardig om vas te stel wat aan die gang is.

Die klooster, geleë in wat eens die vrugbare mieliedriehoek in die Vrystaat was, bied jaarliks ’n Passiespel aan waarop hulle alle hoop vestig vir oorlewing. Maar JC van Schouwenburg, wat die hoofrol vertolk, het onverklaarbaar verdwyn en Dapper is desperaat om hom
op te spoor. Die moederowerste is ontwykend, die personeel onbehulpsaam en Broeder P, die newelagtige leier van die klooster, is ontoeganklik.

Om sy lewe verder te kompliseer moet Dapper boonop chaperone speel vir ’n beeldskone onderwyser wat met ernstige vraagstukke worstel en vir wie hy gevoelens ontwikkel het wat dreig om sy ewewig te laat kantel.

’n Verbeeldingryke, onthutsende roman wat die leser sal wegvoer na ’n ander – dog totaal geloofwaardige! – wêreld.

Dis hoe mens weet dat die Here werklik leef: Jy sien sy krag wanneer Hy van mense splinternuwe skepsels maak.

Leah en Schalk leef die voorstedelike droom, hulle is gelukkig getroud, het baie vriende, 'n goeie ondersteuningsnetwerk en alles wat hul hart begeer.

Schalk is Leah se beste vriend en ’n wonderlike pa vir hul twee dogtertjies. Terwyl Schalk meer betrokke raak by die kerk en minder tyd saam met haar en die kinders deurbring, waardeer en aanvaar Barend Lubbe haar net soos sy is. Schalk verander as hy ’n
Bybelstudiegroep begin bywoon. Maar Schalk se lewe begin uitmekaar val: Sy ou vriende vermy hom; hy weet nie hoe om die kloof tussen hom en Leah te oorbrug nie en hy verloor sy inkomste. Uiteindelik ontdek Leah en Schalk om God se leiding van dag tot dag te vertrou en dat Hy hulle nie wil straf nie, maar sy liefde aan hulle wil bewys.

Juanita Aggenbach se vyfde roman is ’n roerende verhaal van tweede kanse, vergifnis en die krag van God se liefde en genade.

'n Boek oor ma’s. Vir ma’s. Deur ’n ma.

Gebaseer op die joernalis Daniëlla van Heerden se gewilde podsending ’n Ma & ’n Mikrofoon (met meer as 100 episodes as inspirasie) is ‘n keur van dié gesprekke nou verwerk in geskrewe vorm: eerlik, inspirerend en eg Suid-Afrikaans.

In dié bundel word ouerskap en al die verskillende fases daarvan gevier en bespreek: die onsekerheid van ‘n eerste swangerskap tot die opwinding en chaos van ‘n pienkvoet in die huis. Die uitdagings van die tienerjare tot die heimwee van ‘n leë nes.

Jy gaan die ouerskapstories hoor van uiteenlopende bekende ma’s (soos die aktrises Simoné Pretorius en Lindie Strydom en politikus Helen Zille) maar ook leer by minder bekende, maar ewe merkwaardige vroue.

Hulle sluit in Tina van Deventer (‘n ma van twaalf kinders!), Tarryn Bell (wat sterwende kinders versorg) en Shani Little (‘n ma wat geweier het dat blindheid of borskanker haar stuit.)